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Mitchel ResnickMIT Media Lab
Who is doing the inventing?
Who is doing the inventing?
Whoever is doing the inventingis doing most of the learning
We need new approaches totechnology and learning
We need new approaches totechnology and learning
Our inspiration:Kindergarten
After Kindergarten...
How can we help everyonelearn in a
kindergarten style?
Lifelong Kindergarten
How can we help everyonelearn in a
kindergarten style?
One ingredient:Providing the right tools
Lifelong Kindergarten
Froebel’s Gifts
Froebel Gifts forthe 21st century
Programmable Bricks
Exploring: sensing control behavior feedback
Artificial Creatures
Kids can use Crickets to build their own scientific instruments
Kids as Inventors
Distance
Speed
StarLogo
Students can build their own models
StarLogo
Students can build their own models
Write simple rules for lots of objects and observe what patterns arise
Example: Traffic Jams
If see a car close ahead, slow down
If don’t see car ahead, speed up
If see radar trap, slow down
The cars just speed along. They’ll end up staggered, in intervals.
Nothing will be wrong. Cars will just go. There are no obstacles.
They will adjust themselves to a uniform distance from each other.
I didn’t think there’d be a problem, since there was nothing there.
The Centralized Mindset
Assume centralized controlwhere none exists
Impose centralized controlwhere none is needed
Decentralized Systems
Traffic jamsTermite colonies
Market economiesComputer networks
Human minds
After-school centers where inner-city youth work together on design projects